As the forked coin of BTC (Bitcoin), it was produced in New York Consensus in May 2017 through SW (Separated Witness) and 2M.

The mining method of BTC2 changed from the original ASIC mining to GPU mining, and the mining algorithm was modified to completely eliminate the ProgPOW algorithm of ASIC. The block size is still 2M. At the same time, it supports SegWit and adds the two-way replay attack protection strongly urged by the community. The new Bitcoin NewYork was successfully forked at a height of 494784 of BTC on December 27, 2017 and has been operating in a stable way up to now.